Archive for June, 2008
Buca di Beppo
Years ago, we visited some friends in Des Moines, IA and ate at a restaurant called Buca di Beppo (I think the one in Des Moines has since closed). Turns out, it’s a chain. We’ve since found that there are Bucas all over, the most convienient of which is in Lombard, IL just […]
Read More..>>A Wicked 10th Anniversary!
Today is our 10th wedding anniversary and, although we’re not doing anything particularly exciting (except opening a bottle of Tabor Hill’s Cabernet Franc - Michigan has some incredible Cab Francs and this is one of our favs!), Wednesday evening was the “proper” celebration! We spent the night in Chicago and attended Wicked!
I bought JJ […]
Read More..>>A Chosen Beer
Several years ago, I remember seeing a pawn shop in Michigan City, IN called “Agape,” and I remember how non-agape a pawn shop seemed to me. Today, I’ve found another oddity. It’s called “He’Brew: The Chosen Beer.”
Tell me this isn’t great! I picked them up at a place that used to be […]
Read More..>>Non-equi-poly-phasic Sleeping…
How’s that for a mouthfull? In short, it’s a long way of referring to a Non-Equiphasic and Polyphasic sleep schedule. Polyphasic sleep schedules are those where an individual’s sleep a patterns are adjusted to more than one “chunk” of sleeping time (for example, in some countries there is a large night-time sleep AND an hour […]
Read More..>>Happy WWKIPD
http://www.wwkipday.com/
Grace and Peace,
`tim
Isn’t the Internet a Funny Thing?
I have two friends who live half a country away from me. I think I’ve met one of them in person once, and that was several years ago. Other than that, our entire relationship is online. We read each others’ blogs; we communicate occasionally via e-mail. We’ve even talked on the phone a couple of […]
Read More..>>Affinity Classes?
I’ve been thinking a lot about an event that happened at General Synod last week. It’s in relation to the creation of the RCA’s first “affinity classis.” For those of you who are unfamiliar with RCA polity, here’s the quick and dirty run down: a Classis is a regional assembly with the ability […]
Read More..>>Extreme Knitting…
This was a few years ago, but I just heard about it. Knitting with cranes?!
Check it out:
http://www.iberkshires.com/story.php?story_id=17649
Grace and Peace,
`tim
Another “Fun” One
Brewergnome checked his birthday out the other day and I thought it was kind of fun. Here’s mine…
The 134,448 People
Unusual Deaths in 1975
On 24 march 1975 alex mitchell, a 50-year-old bricklayer from king’s lynn literally died laughing while watching an episode of the goodies. according to his wife, who was a witness, mitchell was […]
Read More..>>Just for fun…
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